Mr Geo. Dring is seated third from the left, and his son Albert is standing in the middle row, third from the right

In 1875 Mrs Josiah Evans, of The Heyes, Haydock, asked the Manchester City Mission to send a missionary to preach in a tent she had erected at the bottom of Legh Street, Earlestown. It was a wooden Circular structure with a canvas roof. Various missionaries came: in 1885, George Dring was sent and this became known as ‘Dring’s Mission’.

In 1901 a new Mission Hall was opened in Brunswick Road. Upon George Dring died in 1910 and was succeeded by his son Albert until Mr and Mrs Bimson took over in October 1911. Owing to a doctrinal dispute with the Mission Committee, Mr and Mrs Bimson left the Mission in 1914 and formed the Holiness Mission in Haydock Street. The appointment of a new missionary was regularly raised at almost every committee meeting until finally in 1926 the Manchester City Mission sent a Deaconess, Sister Hughes, who remained until 1935. The Mission continued until 1967 under the guidance of Mr J. E. Kenyon.

Source:

‘Earlestown – Yesterdays of a Railway Town', B.Carman